Thanks for helping out jody, your qa on the build system was excellent
and very much needed. Sometimes I get so involved in battling with maven
that I forget to keep my head above water :)

However, I think its time for some clean up on the build system. While
this workaround gets us a release its not really acceptable. Adrian has
volunteered to help us with releases, but because he is not a maven
expert he cant.

-Justin

Jody Garnett wrote:
> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After ripping out my hair for a few days I can still not get a release to
>> go.
> Release is now gone :-)
>> Javadoc seems to be completley broken.
> Agreed, I got a null pointer exception from our magic plug-in. I have 
> updated the release instructions to *not* include javadoc generation 
> until such time as it works.

>> problems with the following
>> modules:
>>
>> plugin/epsg-hsql
>>   
> did not find a problem.
>> ext/widgets-spring
>>   
> did not find a problem.
>> ext/go
>>   
> did not find a problem.
>> ext/shape
>>   
> Was missing an svn:ignore on a generated index file.
>> And there could be more, I gave up after 4 errors. So we are stuck without
>> javadocs, and if we want a release we have to manually do everything,
>> which is a pain.
>>   
> Ended up reading the release:perform instructions, by default this goal 
> does "deploy" and "site-deploy". The wiki has been updated
> with an example showing how to get it to do only "deploy".
>> I will not have any more time to put toward this until next week. I should
>> also note that GeoServer is not making it project policy to release
>> against official geotools releases due to the overhead of releasing
>> geotools and not having a working release process.
>>   
> Please make use of yesterdays release, geotools needs to (and will fix) 
> the overhead of making a release. I would like to set things up so
> projects like uDig and GeoServer can ask for a release given one weeks 
> notice and expect to see results.
> 
> With respect to the "larger" problem of why the release process was broken.
> - QA tools added to the build chain, and only tested for maven install 
> (rather then full release process)
> - files left on the 2.2.x branch that were needed for assembly of 
> release artifacts
> - focus on javadocs destracted from real need to produce results
> - lack of communication (both wiki instructions and email on release 
> progress)
> 
> I am sure we can do better next time :-)
> Jody
> 
> PS. I am working on a steering document that I will try and share with 
> the list shortly, feedback from the geoserver community in terms of 
> expectations is important and needed.
> 
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